If teenagers prefer MySpace to diaries tucked between mattresses and notes stuffed in old books, does this mean we'll no longer find hard confirmations like Duran Duran Rules? And is it the lack of physical presence or the public-ness of online journals that lead mothers to wonder if it's not okay to peek?

"Alex acknowledged that his people had settled there for several years, but he didn't describe it as a place they had lived. 'Here,' he said simply, 'is where we survived'."